LINCOLN, Neb. — In the midst of chaos, while Brett Hundley's UCLA teammates celebrated having rallied for an impressive 41-21 victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers and a record crowd of 91,471 trudged out of Memorial Stadium, the Bruins...

The Bowl Championship Series has been ripped, ridiculed ravaged and pilloried — and that's by the people who like it.
The people who don't have treated it like a demon child.
No one has ever called the BCS boring.
The 16th and last season of...

1: Where does USC football go from here, with interim Coach Ed Orgeron? After a week off, the Trojans face Arizona on Thursday, Oct. 10, and then brace for the Oct. 19 trip to Notre Dame. After that it's Utah, Oregon State, Cal, Stanford, Colorado and...

Returning a punt for 70 yards against New Mexico State? No problem for UCLA running back Steven Manfro.
"I just saw a little crease and I hit it," the 5-foot-9, 189-pound redshirt sophomore said.
Catching a pass for the Bruins' second touchdown...

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The BCS would not have been possible without the Pac-12's cooperation in 1998, when then-Southeastern Conference commissioner Roy Kramer and cohorts persuaded the league and the Rose Bowl to sign on the crooked line.
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2: Oregon's race to the title game starts Saturday when it hosts UCLA in Eugene. The Ducks close the Pac-12 season with UCLA,...

They started calling him "Johnny Football" as a kid because, when things didn't go his way on the playground, he took his ball and went home.
Now hit me with a rim shot and a "piling on" penalty.
Unlike the paid psycho-babble experts on ESPN, I actually haven't quite figured out Johnny Manziel.
Defend him, or suspend him?
Lump me with the linebackers who also have yet to get their arms around Johnny.
I sort of liked him in a crazy way, but not as much after Saturday.
How does he affect you?...

Mark this down as we whitewater-raft through the final weeks of the final BCS rapids: Something is going to happen, give, buckle or burst.
Some team is going to be robbed and maybe ripped off.
Grownups are going to scream, sulk, petition, lobby and sweat the small stuff because, as unpopular as the Bowl Championship Series has been, nothing will ever replace its lunacy.
Fifteen champions have been crowned in this zany BCS system, with a dozen other schools thinking it should have been them.
So...

You can try this cold turkey, but picking bowl-game winners is my job. While you're at work solving world problems, I'm doing full time what you do in your spare time. Some years are better than others. The general rule is to look for motivation in each bowl matchup. The best example was UCLA in the 2004 Las Vegas Bowl against Wyoming. One team wanted to be there and the other went by the nickname "Bruins."
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My other theory is to stay away from schools led by...

Five things to watch this week in college football:
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